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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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The problem with education is school.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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